A much needed addendum to the previous post on this subject from 8 days ago: https://hexbear.net/post/4615155
Lol this has happened every year for as long as I can remember.
“Scientists discover a new planet/aliens”
Then, two weeks later:
“Nevermind folks, it was just a glitch/misreading”
Btw, what happened to those desiccated Mexican mummies people went nuts over last year?
How much would it blow if we’re the only planet with life on it in the universe and we’re actively destroying it.
I mean, you can put some very reasonable, scientifically sound assumptions into the Drake Equation and it really starts to look like we might be alone. I had a professor in college that held this view.
But you can also change the variables and it looks like life is common so idk
Maybe it’s pedantic to point this out, but I seriously doubt anything humans can do would be able to wipe out all life on Earth, and I include nuclear weapons in that. Microbes can live in some crazy environments, and it only takes one surviving for life to persist and evolve into new species.
Human beings, on the other hand, and especially human civilization as we know it, well…
Is there any good studies or models showing how long shit like heavy metals and other chemicals will remain bioaccumulating in different food-chains like in lakes or coasts?
To think that will be our mark beyond the scorched steel frames and various hotspots of radiological, chemical or environmental damage.
